Sugar-dispensing receptacle



Sept. 20, 1927.

S. HORVATH SUGARYDISPENSING RECEPTACLE Filed Jan. 10, 1927 1 by its simplicity of construction, neatness 0 Patented Sept. 20, 1927.

UNITED STATES STEVEN HORVATH, OF LORAIN, OHIO.

SUGAR-DISPENSING RECEPTACLE.

Application filed January 10, 1927. Serial No. 160,154.

The present invention relates to improvements in that type of dispensing apparatus which is used as a counter or table receptacle for delivering a measured quantity of sugar or similar commodity by merely the act of inverting the receptacle.

It is primarily the purpose to eliminate by this invention unnecessary waste of the sugar which occurs in those receptacles where no controlof the outflow or discharge of the contents of the container is provided for. In essence, the device comprises a jar like receptacle having closure means which embodies a measuring cup having a combined guard and refilling means so dlspos ed in re lationto each other and to the discharge.

opening that only a predetermined quantity of the contents will escape when the receptacle is turned over, while the act of restoring the receptacle to normal upright position effects a regular charging of the measuring cup.

The device is characterized as to novelty appearance and ease of operation.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a dispensing receptacle constructed in accordance with my invention.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary sectional View showing the receptacle in the discharging position.

Figure 3 is a similar view showing the measuring receptacle in the process of refilling as' the receptacle is being restored to normal upright position.

Figures 4 and 5 are horizontal sectional views on the line 44 and 5-5, respectively, of Figure 1. i

Referring to the drawin s, 1 designates .a

1 container or jar of suitab e size and shape to hold a supply of sugar or the like which is to be delivered in measured quantities of approximately a teaspoonfuhm'ore or less. The receptacle is threaded at its mouth to receive the correspondingly threaded cover or cap2, within which the measuring means constituting the special features of this invention are disposed. Centrally, the cover is formed with a discharge opening 3 having a depending nozzle extension 4 which gradually tapers fromthe lower end to the discharge outlet proper.

Just beneath the nozzle aforesaid is arranged what I term for the purposes of this description, a combined funnel and guard 5,

frusto-conical in shape and supported from the sides of the cover by the bars 6. The diameter of the top of this member 5 is in excess of the diameter of the nozzle, while at the bottom its diameter coincides or is slightly smaller than that of the dispensing measuring cup 7, which is mounted in a cup shaped support 8 suspended from the funnel-guard 5, as for instance by means of the bracket 9.

The construction of this dispensing device is unitary in character and it is easily accesible for cleansing or other purposes when displaced from the jar 1.

In the operation of the article, assuming that the dispensing cup' 7 is charged with sugar as shown in F lgure 1, the receptacle is turned over into the inverted'position f nozzle 4. It will be obvious that in this inverted position the cup 7 constitutes a cutoff to prevent any of the contents other than that contained within the cup from passing out of the receptacle. This is due to'the fact that in the inverted position the meas-' uring cup impinges and engages over the smaller opening of the member 5. In a like manner the member 5 itself prevents any of the contents of the. receptacle from passingout of the nozzle owing to its covering position with respect to the entrance of the nozzle as clearly shown in Figure 2.

As the receptacle is now turned back to its normal upright position the sugar which moved into the cover, 2 when inverted 'will now pass through the larger opening of the member-5 and into the measuring cup 7 as the latter slides back to its seat in the support 8. This is graphically depicted in Figure 3 of the drawing. In view of the space between the measuring receptacle and the member 5 which acts as a funnel in the refilling operation, where before it acted as a guard in the discharging operation, the excess sugar falls off or back into the jar 1 leaving a filled cup, as clearly shown in Figure 1 of the drawings.

It will be apparent that the size of the measuring cup may readily be modified according to the predetermined quantity of the contents of the receptacle which is to be delivered atone time and I therefore do not wish to be restricted with respect to showing in this partcular. Obviously the .device may be used for other commodities than sugar, and for these purposes slight changes may readily be made in the details of the construction without departing from the spirit of the invention and within the scope of the claims hereto appended.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In dispensing means of the class described, the combination of a receptacle, a cover therefor having a discharge opening, means associated with the cover for deliverinn a measured quantity of the contents of said receptacle, comprising a measuring cup adapted to receive and hold a predetern'iined amount of the contents and bodily movable by gravity action toward the discharge opening to effect discharge of is contents therethrough. y

2. In dispensing means of the class described, the combination of a receptacle, a

cover therefor having a discharge opening dispensed, a. cover therefor having a discharge opening, a measuring cup carried by said cover, and a funnel-shaped member in termediate the cup and said discharge opening, said cup being bodily movable into contact with the intermediate member to dislodge the contents of the cup and simultaneously cut olf the contents of the container from e-acape through the discharge opening.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

STEVEN HORVATH. 

